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Grade Crossing Signal System Safety

FRA is amending the final rule requiring that railroads comply with specific maintenance, inspection, and testing requirements for active highway-rail grade crossing warning systems. The final rule being amended also requires that railroads take specific and timely actions to protect the...

Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings

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Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings

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U.S. Locational Requirement for Dispatching of U.S. Rail Operations

This Final Rule will supplant an interim Final Rule (IFR) that has been in effect since January 10, 2002, while FRA has gathered comments on whether to permit extraterritorial dispatching (the act of dispatching of a railroad operation that occurs on trackage in the United States by a dispatcher...

Track Safety Standards; Concrete Crossties

This document responds to petitions for reconsideration of FRA�s final rule published on April 1, 2011, mandating specific requirements for effective concrete crossties, for rail fastening systems connected to concrete crossties, and for automated inspections of track constructed with concrete...

Track Safety Standards; Concrete Crossties

FRA is amending the Federal Track Safety Standards to promote the safety of railroad operations over track constructed with concrete crossties. In particular, FRA is mandating specific requirements for effective concrete crossties, for rail fastening systems connected to concrete crossties, and...

Track Safety Standards; Continuous Welded Rail (CWR)

FRA is amending the Federal Track Safety Standards to promote the safety of railroad operations over continuous welded rail (CWR). In particular, FRA is promulgating specific requirements for the qualification of persons designated to inspect CWR track, or supervise the installation, adjustment...

Track Safety Standards; Gage Restraint Measuring Systems

FRA amends the Track Safety Standards to provide procedures for track owners to use Gage Restraint Measuring Systems (GRMS) to assess the ability of their track to maintain proper gage. Under the current Track Safety Standards, track owners must evaluate a track�s gage restraint capability...

Track Safety Standards; Miscellaneous Proposed Revisions

FRA amends the Track Safety Standards to update and enhance its track safety regulatory program. To address today�s railroad operating environment, these amendments present additional regulatory requirements, including standards specifically addressing high speed train operations. FRA issues...